Riding trains in Europe is proof that modern western civilization is at least showing signs of a post-industrial and Internet age existence - if japan is still kicking their asses, they are definitely kicking ours. Cheap, fast, clean, efficient, and free wifi and you're in Scotland for the weekend!! Edinburgh is a beautiful city filled with wonderful people, many of them funky musicians, and all of them friendly, and passionate about their country and heritage. Haggis is actually delicious, and whiskey is cheaper in the USA because of taxes. Traditional music is as much a pub mainstay as is modern rock, and men unabashedly wear kilts on Burns Night to show off their legs. The countryside is breathtaking, and I enjoyed one of my best runs ever up and around the hills. Edinburgh is definitely distinct in culture from London, and I'm proud to say that I loved my time there with my new non-Duke MBA friends who are surpisingly cool ;)
On the train headed home to London.
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Scotland sounds really cool! I'm surprised about the whiskey taxes though. Did you buy me a kilt? Hope you didn't, because I'm not wearing it. HA HA.
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